(This audio is part of the complete Audio Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1 - Visada Yoga in Allet les Bains, France)
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Satyanarayana Dasa
Deliberation and introspection are crucial for your spiritual progress. In this way, you can become conscious of your personal obstacles on the path of bhakti. These obstacles will inevitably appear when you turn to the spiritual path and become aware of your material attachments. The first chapter of Bhagavad Gītā illustrates this phenomenon. In this section, Kṛṣṇa showed Arjuna his opponents on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra. Since Arjuna identified with them, seeing them as his relatives, this attachment made him weak-hearted and dejected. In addition, he rationalized his inability to fight for the right cause as righteousness.
If you don’t work under the guidance of the Guru, you will make a lot of external changes to make yourself happy. You change but you don’t really change. Your character remains the same. Internal change takes a lot of effort because our material ego doesn’t like to change. Ego resists change.
